Date: February 11, 2025Author: Editor, cairnsnews 5 Comments
USAID, the Washington-based organisation allegedly “saving lives around the world”, gifted more than $USD980,000 to The Asia Society, Kevin Rudd’s pet think tank.
Rudd is not only the current president and CEO of the Asia Society, he is also Australia’s ambassador to the USA and now feeling extremely uneasy with the Trump-Musk wrecking ball swinging wildly in Washington DC.
Perhaps it’s just as well that The Asia Society, a globalist operation started by John D. Rockefeller in 1956, is headquartered in New York. We suspect that between Kevvie’s plum diplomatic job in DC and this one in New York, he’s on quite a substantial and most likely tax-free millionaire’s wicket.
In fact our Kevvie has been listed in a magazine called People With Money, as the most highly-paid politician in the world, although the magazine is said to be strong on parody.
People With Money reports: “It’s been a rough year for the politician, but at least he has his millions of dollars to ease the pain. 67-year-old Kevin Rudd has taken the No. 1 spot on People With Money’s top 10 highest-paid politicians for 2025 with an estimated $82 million in combined earnings.”
Whether this included income from his multi-millionaire wife Therese, we don’t know, except that Therese hit the rich list a decade ago when she reportedly made more than $150m in cash and shares from the sale of her Ingeus jobseeker business. The Rudds have luxury properties at Noosa, Peregian Beach, Sunshine Beach and Brisbane.
According to News.com.au Rudd has a $25 million “fall-back plan” if Trump ends his ambassadorship in Washington. Rudd and Trump are like chalk and cheese.
The USAID grant also references ASPI, the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, but why, we’re not sure. ASPI was established in 2001 under Prime Minister John Howard to provide “policy-relevant research and analysis to better inform Government decisions and public understanding of strategic and defence issues”.
The organisation is currently employing a staff of 48 – mostly academics specialising in various fields ranging from technology to politics to specific countries.
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